"The soft watches are an unconscious symbol of the relativity of space and time, a Surrealist meditation on the collapse of our notions of a fixed cosmic order"
"Dalí had been greatly interested in nuclear physics since the first atomic bomb explosions of August 1945, and described the atom as his 'favourite food for thought.' Recognising that matter was made up of atoms which did not touch each other, he sought to replicate this in his art at the time, with items suspended and not interacting with each other."
"The soft watches are an unconscious symbol of the relativity of space and time, a Surrealist meditation on the collapse of our notions of a fixed cosmic order"
The Persistence Of Memory - Salvador Dali
"Dalí had been greatly interested in nuclear physics since the first atomic bomb explosions of August 1945, and described the atom as his 'favourite food for thought.' Recognising that matter was made up of atoms which did not touch each other, he sought to replicate this in his art at the time, with items suspended and not interacting with each other."
The Disintegration Of The Persistence Of Memory - Salvador Dali
"Optical illusions neither trick the eye nor fool the brain..."
Optical Illusions & Visual Phenomena - Michael Bach